Willem Johan Kolff
1911-
Dutch-American physician who is best known for inventing the artificial kidney, or dialysis machine, in Nazi-occupied Holland. His original dialysis machine was ingeniously co...
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Tuberculosis
Definition
Tuberculosis (pronounced too-BUR-kyoo-LOH-siss), or TB, is a contagious disease of the lungs that can spread to other parts of the body and may be fatal. TB is caused by a micr...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs. It is caused by a bacterial microorganism,...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of the lungs caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the mid-nineteenth century, about one-fourth of the mortality rate was attri...
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which lodge in the lungs and destroy lung tissue. Sometimes called consumption,...
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Tuberculosis
A chronic, infectious disease primarily attacking the lungs.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an chronic, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily attacks the lungs. The...
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Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on February 14, 1911, the son of Adriana (de Jonge) and Jacob Kolff, a doctor who ran a tuberculosis sanatorium. After graduating from medical s...
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Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on February 14, 1911, the son of Adriana (de Jonge) and Jacob Kolff, a doctor who ran a tuberculosis sanatorium. After graduating from medical s...
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Willem Johan Kolff
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Willem Johan Kolff
